The Silver Bridge: Mandatory InspectionsHow a microscopic crack changed federal safety laws
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Rules Written in BloodModern commuters assume infrastructure is safe, but that certainty was written in blood in 1967. When the Silver Bridge fell into the Ohio River, it revealed a terrifying lack of oversight: no laws required maintenance checks. This disaster exposed fatal design flaws and directly established the rigorous standards used to audit every span in America today.
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